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Revealing the Links Between Law and Magic A Conference Sponsored by the Law and Humanities Law Institute and Thomas Jefferson School o...

From Anne Wagner, Editor in Chief, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law : INVITATION TO SUBMIT INDEPENDENT PAPERS FOR THE INT...

From the July 28th New York Times, A. O. Scott on the true nature  of "Breaking Bad"'s Walter White, and the intersection of ...

The ABA Journal, August issue has the annual pop culture feature: this year is devoted to "the 25 Greatest Law Novels." The panel...

Cristina E. Parau, University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations, and J. Wittmeier Bains are publishing Constitu...

F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Barry University School of Law & Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, has published The Parable of the P...

Helge Dedek, McGill University Faculty of Law, Institute of Comparative Law, has published Duties of Love and Self-Perfection: Moses Mendel...

Eveline T. Feteris, University of Amsterdam, and Harm Kloosterhuis, Erasmus School of Law, have published Law and Argumentation Theory: Th...

Markus D. Dubber, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, has published Ultima Ratio as Caveat Dominus: Legal Principles, Police Maxims, and...

Simon Stern of the University of Toronto notes that Elizabeth Parish Smith has published "In a Bar Room Called the 'Fifteen Amendm...

Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center, has published Make Me Walk, Make Me Talk, Do Whatever You Please: Barbie and Exceptions ...

From the Law and Society Association: We are excited to announce early information about the Law and Society Association 2014 Annual Mee...

John Copeland Nagle, Notre Dame Law School, has published What Hath Lynn White Wrought? at 2 Fare Forward 44 (2012). Here is the abstract....

Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, has published Book Review: Gilles Cuniberti, Grands Systèmes De Droit Con...

When the criminal justice system uses an acronym to refer to a defendant, sometimes not everyone gets the memo. The New York Times' Ben...

The New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement  has published the proceedings of a fall play and panel discussion and spring sym...

From NPR : news that a composer/lawyer has put the philosophical iconic battle between Justices Scalia and Ginsburg to music. Derrick Wang ...

From Elizabeth Clark, Associate Professor of Law, Brigham Young School of Law: The International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies...

The July 3, 2013 Google doodle is a tribute to Franz Kafka 's "Metamorphosis": see here . Kafka's work is shot through wi...

Ronald J. Rychlak, University of Mississippi School of Law, has published Gambling with the Bronx Bombers: Betting on, Against, and with ...

Estelle Derclaye, University of Nottingham School of Law, is publishing What Can Intellectual Property Law Learn from Happiness Research? ...

Mark Weiner of Rutgers Law School (Newark) sent me a link to a thread on his fascinating blog, Worlds of Law . The thread discusses connec...

Miriam Aziz, Visiting Scholar at Cardozo Law School, has published Lost For Words: Embodying Law Through Tanztheater,  7 Law and Humanities...

A lovely Bloomsday post from our friend Jose Calvo Gonzalez of the University of Malaga at his blog, Iurisdictio-Lex Malacitana. Lots of e...

It's Bloomsday! More here from the James Joyce Centre, here from the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Selected Joyce and the Law Biblio...

According to the "Tuned In" column in the June 24, 2013 issue of Time , U.S. popular culture has been predicting government surve...

Courtesy of Gwynne Watkins , who explains the Mad Men's  teen's possible problems after catching her dad with a neighbor.  From New...

Evgeny Finkel, George Washington University Department of Political Science, Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for t...

Ross E. Davies, George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag, has published Learned Hand Sings, Part One: Liner Notes for 'Song...

Jeremy Patrick, University of Southern Queensland School of Law, has published The Curious Persistence of Blasphemy: Canada and Beyond. It...

Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder, both of the University of California, Davis, School of Law, are publishing Copyright's Cultural Tur...

Charles Richard DiSalvo, West Virginia University College of Law, is publishing M. K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma ...

Kristie Dotson, Michigan State University Department of Philosophy, has published Knowing in Space: Three Lessons from Black Women's So...

Kevin Toh, San Francisco State University, is publiishing Legal Relativism and Jus Gentium in the APA Newsletter. Here is the abstract. ...

Lorin Geitner, Claremont Graduate University, has published Social Architecture and the Law: Law, Through the Lens of Religion . Here is th...

Jennifer Schweppe, University of Limerick, and John E. Stannard, Queen's University Belfast, School of Law, have published What is so ‘...

Joseph E. David, Oxford University Faculty of Oriental Studies; Wolfson College, has published Dwelling within the Law: Nahmanides’ Legal T...

The ABA Journal highlights the work of Nathaniel Burney, author of the Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law. Mr. Burney practices criminal la...

Among the shows that Amazon has picked up as an "Amazon Original" to air on Amazon Instant Video is Garry Trudeau's Alpha Hou...

Reminder from Desmond Manderson: Abstracts for single papers or panel proposals for this year's Law, Literature, and the Humanities Ass...

Legal dramas are perennially popular, and as usual, the networks are already rolling them out for the 2013 season. On Tuesday, May 29, at 1...

From Yxta Murray at Loyola Los Angeles Law School, a call for papers for a conference on Law, Peace, and Violence: Jurisprudence and the Po...

Ah, the uses of trademark law! Check out Vulcan Ale, now for sale in Vulcan, Alberta, in honor of the town's centennial.  If you'd ...

Justin Richland, University of Chicago, is publishing Jurisdiction: Grounding Law in Language in the Annual Review of Anthropology. Here i...

Ronald K. L. Collins, University of Washington School of Law, has published Theodore Schroeder and the Pre-1919 Defenses of Free Speech: Th...

From Daniela Carpi, Professor of Literature, University of Verona, writing for AIDEL,  Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura. Her...

From an ABA news release : (The information below is excerpted from the release) The American Bar Association announced today its select...

To take a break from grading, check out Anatasia Salter's post "Researching In Public On Tumblr."  Professor Salter suggests ...

Louis J. Sirico, Jr., Villanova University School of Law, has published Benjamin Franklin, Prayer, and the Constitutional Convention: Hist...

Amy Salyzyn, Yale University Law School, is publishing John Rambo v. Atticus Finch: Gender, Diversity and the Civility Movement in volume...